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gray mold symptoms of Botrytis cinerea on grapes
Elisabeth Fournier, Pierre Gladieux, Tatiana Giraud
To cite this version:
Elisabeth Fournier, Pierre Gladieux, Tatiana Giraud. The ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde fungus’: noble
rot versus gray mold symptoms of Botrytis cinerea on grapes. Evolutionary Applications, Blackwell,
2013, 6 (6), pp.960-969. �10.1111/eva.12079�. �hal-02328908�
O R I G I N A L A R T I C L E
The ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde fungus’: noble rot versus gray
mold symptoms of
Botrytis cinerea on grapes
Elisabeth Fournier,1Pierre Gladieux2,3,4and Tatiana Giraud2,3
1 Biologie et Genetique des Interactions Plante-Parasite, INRA-CIRAD-SupAgro Montpellier Cedex 5, France 2 Ecologie, Systematique et Evolution, Universite Paris-Sud Orsay Cedex, France
3 Ecologie, Systematique et Evolution,CNRS Orsay Cedex, France 4 Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
Keywords
Ascomycete,Botrytis cinerea, genetic structure, gray mold, microsatellites, noble rot, population structure
Correspondence
Elisabeth Fournier, UMR BGPI - Biologie et Genetique des Interactions Plante-Parasite, INRA-CIRAD-SupAgro, TA A 54/K, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France. Tel.: +33 4 99 62 48 63; Fax: +33 4 99 62 48 22; e-mail: elisabeth.fournier@supagro.inra.fr Received: 3 November 2012 Accepted: 8 April 2013 doi:10.1111/eva.12079 Abstract
Many cryptic species have recently been discovered in fungi, especially in fungal plant pathogens. Cryptic fungal species co-occurring in sympatry may occupy slightly different ecological niches, for example infecting the same crop plant but specialized on different organs or having different phenologies. Identifying cryp-tic species in fungal pathogens of crops and determining their ecological special-ization are therefore crucial for disease management. Here, we addressed this question in the ascomycete Botrytis cinerea, the agent of gray mold on a wide range of plants. On grape, B. cinerea causes severe damage but is also responsible for noble rot used for processing sweet wines. We used microsatellite genotyping and clustering methods to elucidate whether isolates sampled on gray mold ver-sus noble rot symptoms in three French regions belong to genetically differenti-ated populations. The inferred population structure matched geography rather than the type of symptom. Noble rot symptoms therefore do not seem to be caused by a specific B. cinerea population but instead seem to depend essentially on microclimatic conditions, which has applied consequences for the production of sweet wines.
Introduction
Since the advent of molecular biology, the use of genetic markers within the population genetics framework has revealed the existence of many cryptic species, that is, spe-cies previously unrecognized based on morphology alone, in a wide range of organisms (e.g., Taylor et al. 2000; Gentetaki and Lynn 2010; Heimeier et al. 2010; Jesse et al. 2010; Kreier et al. 2010; Nygren et al. 2010; Gladieux et al. 2011a,b; Liu et al. 2011; Piggott et al. 2011) . This is espe-cially true for microorganisms like fungi, because few mor-phological traits can be used to discriminate species and because inducing mating in vitro to test for interfertility is often impossible or less discriminant than other species cri-teria (Koufopanou et al. 1997; Dettman et al. 2003a,b; Fournier et al. 2003; Le Gac et al. 2007a,b; Giraud et al. 2008). Some of the recently discovered fungal cryptic spe-cies have been found to occur in allopatry, for instance on different continents, such as in Neurospora crassa (Dettman et al. 2003a), yeasts (Kuehne et al. 2007), or the crop
path-ogen Fusarium graminearum (O’Donnell et al. 2004). Other fungal cryptic species occur in sympatry and often display seemingly similar ecological niches (Fitt et al. 2006; Le Gac et al. 2007a; Giraud et al. 2008) . In this latter case, the sympatry between closely related species with appar-ently similar ecological niches can be explained by a recent secondary contact after speciation in allopatry or by differ-ent resources use (Giraud et al. 2008; Gladieux et al. 2011b). For instance, in fungal plant pathogens, sibling spe-cies infecting the same crop plants are often specialized on different organs or have different phenologies (Fitt et al. 2006). Beyond the fundamental interest in understanding the coexistence of sibling species in ecology, it is essential for disease management to recognize the different cryptic species in fungal pathogens of crops and their ecological specialization, as they can exhibit differences in fungicide resistance (Fournier et al. 2005), phenologies (Walker et al. 2011), organ specialization (Fitt et al. 2006), host special-ization (Le Gac et al. 2007a; Fournier and Giraud 2008), or ability to infect resistant plant varieties (Le Cam et al. Evolutionary Applications ISSN 1752-4571
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2002; Gladieux et al. 2010). Recognizing sibling pathogen species with such specialization has obviously important applied consequences for their control. An efficient control program demands good knowledge of the targeted species, in terms of fungicide resistance, phenology, and potential gene flow from related species (i.e., potential introgression of genes controlling fungicide resistance, aggressiveness, or virulence). For example, rapid and efficient diagnostics of Candida cryptic species allowed demonstration of differ-ences in their prevaldiffer-ences in immunocompromised humans and in their susceptibility profiles to antifungal compounds (Johnson 2009; Peman et al. 2012). Such dis-coveries help targeting treatments against the most harmful species. The recognition of cryptic species is also critical in pathogen species useful to humans. An example is the understanding of the environmental distributions of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae and its sister cryptic species, widely used as biological control agents for insects (Schneider et al. 2011).
Elucidating the population structure of pathogenic fungi is of uttermost importance when the targeted species or species complex can be at the same time a pest and a bene-fit, such as the ascomycete Botrytis cinerea. This ‘Jekkyl and Hyde’ fungus is indeed responsible for the gray mold dis-ease that causes important damage on numerous host plants such as grapevine, strawberries, or tomatoes, but it is also responsible for the noble rot on grape berries used for processing sweet wines such as Sauternes. Despite its great economic importance, the difference between the noble rot and gray mold symptoms on grapevine has been little investigated. Grapevine noble rot, also called ‘botrytization’ or ‘over maturation’ of perfectly ripe berries, is a progres-sive process taking place at the end of the growing season, lasting 10–20 days and being restricted to particular ‘terr-oirs’ (i.e., particular combinations of pedo-climatic condi-tions) (Ribereau-Gayon et al. 2006). The first stage of noble rot infection, called ‘marron pourri plein’, corre-sponds to the penetration of the fungus into ripe berries without altering the fruit skin. The further evolution of the botrytization process seems to depend on particular weather conditions—alternations of cold humid nights and sunny dry days. The fungus induces the decomposition of the fruit skin that becomes porous. Water losses by natural evaporation then lead to intense enzymatic maceration and increase sugar concentration in berries (‘marron roti’ stage). Botrytized berries are harvested one by one by trained people at the ‘marron roti’ stage when the fungus has been killed by the increase in sugar concentration. The chemical composition between botrytized and gray molded berries differs as regards amines, conjugated polyamines, and hydroxycinnamic acids (Geny et al. 2003; Kiss et al. 2006). The noble rot also has a direct impact on aroma precursors and volatile thiols (Tominaga et al. 2006;
Thi-bon et al. 2009), related to the characteristic exceptional range of aromas of sweet wines. At early stages of the botry-tization process, a reversion of noble rot toward gray mold can be observed (G. Barbeau, Y. Brygoo, pers. com.). More-over, both noble rot and gray mold symptoms are observed in sympatry, in the same vineyards, on the same plant, and sometimes within the same grapes. The question, however, remains whether the different symptoms are caused by genetically differentiated strains with contrasted metabo-lisms or by the same strains that would display different symptoms depending on environmental conditions, such as microclimatic temperature and humidity within the grape, maturity level of the infected berries, or presence of other microbial communities.
Botrytis cinerea (teleomorph Botryotinia fuckeliana) has a wide host range and can infect more than 220 eudicot plants. Botrytis cinerea has recently been shown to be a complex of two sibling species growing in sympatry (Four-nier et al. 2005): B. cinerea (sensu stricto), aka ‘B. cinerea Group II’, is the predominant and most damageable species on grapevine, especially at vintage. The other species, ini-tially designed B. cinerea Group I (Fournier et al. 2005) and recently re-named B. pseudocinerea (Walker et al. 2011), is found at low frequencies in French populations (Giraud et al. 1997; Walker et al. 2011). Population genet-ics studies have revealed the existence of regular recombi-nation within each species (Giraud et al. 1997; Fournier et al. 2005) and have shown a significant level of genetic differentiation between B. cinerea Group II populations occurring on different host plants (Fournier and Giraud 2008; Karchani-Balma et al. 2008).
No attempt has been made so far to test the existence of genetic differentiation between strains causing noble rot and gray mold symptoms. This knowledge could yet have important agronomic applications. In case no genetic dif-ferentiation is found between noble rot and gray mold iso-lates, winegrowers should focus on the control of environmental parameters to optimize the development of noble rot. If the two symptoms were caused by two differ-entiated populations, noble rot could be distinguished from gray mold isolates, and specifically inoculated into targeted vineyards; this would allow the development of noble rot on more berries, increasing yield and saving the money spent to hire trained workers sorting the different kinds of infections berry by berry. It would also allow the development of new business aiming at producing noble rot inocula both for the domestic market and for export in wine-growing regions where botrytized berries are not used in the production of sweet wines. Such inoculations of ‘noble rot isolates’ could also allow producing sweet wines in a variety of regions where it could not be elaborated so far. Given the socioeconomic importance of sweet wines, this would have many applied consequences. Furthermore,
various sweet wines are produced in different regions of France (e.g., Alsace and Bordelais), with debates regarding the involvement of noble rot in certain regions. The identi-fication of genetically differentiated strains, between noble rot and gray mold or even between different regional types of noble rot, would have applied consequences, especially in terms of AOC (‘appellation d’origine contr^olee’), that is., authorization of labels such as ‘noble rot’. Genetic tests could be designed and demanded for AOC labels if differ-ent types of strains are found, and further investigations could be conducted to determine the metabolic differences among noble rot regional types.
The aims of this study are therefore (i) to determine whether noble rot symptoms are caused by B. cinerea (sensu stricto, i.e., Group II) or by a cryptic distinct species, (ii) in case noble rot symptoms are caused by B. cinerea sensu stricto, to investigate whether genetic differentiation exists between populations of B. cinerea causing respec-tively gray mold and noble rot symptoms, and (iii) to investigate genetic differentiation between populations from different French vineyards used for sweet wine pro-duction. To achieve these goals, we sampled Botrytis on grapevine at fall in three French vineyards where sweet wines are produced: Alsace (Haut-Rhin, Eastern France), Anjou (Maine-et-Loire, central western France), and Bordelais (Gironde, south-western France), on berries dis-playing gray mold and on berries disdis-playing noble rot symptoms in each vineyard, and we used multilocus micro-satellite genotyping to investigate genetic structure.
Material and methods Botrytis sampling
Isolates were sampled in September and October 2002 in three French regions: Alsace near the city of Colmar, Anjou near the town of Beaulieu-sur-Layon, and Bordelais near the town of Pessac (Table 1). In each region, several fields were sampled, the maximum distance between two fields never exceeding 2 km. In each field, Botrytis was sampled
on grape (Vitis vinifera), both from gray mold symptoms (‘Gray Mold’ isolates) and from noble rot symptoms (‘Noble Rot’ isolates). All samples were taken from sporu-lating necroses on fruits using sterilized cotton buds. Sam-ples were genetically purified by three consecutive cultures (3 days at 21°C on PDA medium) of uncontaminated growing mycelial colonies, as described in the study by Fournier and Giraud (2008). Isolates were then grown toward sporulation, and spore suspensions were stored at
80°C in 20% glycerol.
DNA extraction and microsatellite amplification
For each isolate, genomic DNA was extracted using the Chelex (Bio-Rad laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA) protocol described in the study by Bucheli et al. (2001). Eight micro-satellite markers (Fournier et al. 2002) were amplified, with forward primers labeled with a fluorescent probe. PCR amplifications were performed as in Fournier et al. (Four-nier et al. 2002) and gel visualization as in Giraud (2004). The Bc6 locus carries a diagnostic allele for B. pseudocinerea (Fournier and Giraud 2008; Walker et al. 2011).
Genic and genotypic diversities, and linkage disequilibrium
The softwareFSTATversion 2.9.3 (Goudet 1995) was used to
estimate the unbiased genic diversity, He (Nei 1987), and
the mean number of alleles per locus, na, over all loci in the
total sample, in each of the six regionX symptom combina-tion and in each cluster inferred using assignment methods.
FSTATwas also used to calculate pairwise Weir and
Cocker-ham’s FST(Weir and Cockerham 1984) between the
clus-ters inferred using assignment methods and to evaluate their significance by random permutations and if necessary by progressive Bonferroni correction as described by Rice (1989). The number of different multilocus genotypes, G, the haplotypic diversity, and the index of association, rD,
were calculated using MULTILOCUS 1.3b (Agapow and Burt
Table 1. Sample sizes, various indexes of genetic diversities, and linkage disequilibrium, in total and for each region9 symptom combination. N: Number of isolates genotyped.G: number of observed multilocus genotypes. G/N: fraction of nonrepeated genotypes in the sample. He: nonbiased
genic diversity.na: mean number of alleles per locus (standard deviation between brackets).rD: multilocus linkage disequilibrium (P: associated
proba-bility estimated after 500 randomizations).
Region Symptom N G G/N He na rD
Anjou Gray mold 35 34 0.97 0.51 4.4 (2.1) 0.03 (P = 0.03) Noble rot 34 33 0.97 0.48 4.6 (2) 0.02 (P = 0.66) Bordelais Gray mold 38 36 0.95 0.46 4 (2) 0.02 (P = 0.08) Noble rot 18 17 0.94 0.37 2.7 (2) 0.02 (P = 0.22) Alsace Gray mold 18 18 1 0.57 4.5 (2.1) 0.01 (P = 0.65) Noble rot 21 21 1 0.56 4.1 (1.9) 0.01 (P = 0.24) Total 164 153 0.93 0.51 6.4 (3.1) 0.01 (P = 0.46)
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2001). The rD index measures the multilocus linkage
dis-equilibrium (Brown et al. 1980; Maynard-Smith et al. 1993; Haubold et al. 1998) and indicates whether two dif-ferent individuals sharing the same allele at one locus are more likely to share the same allele at another locus, based on the variance of the number of loci with respect to which two individuals differ. rD is insensitive to the number of
scored loci and varies from 0 (complete panmixia) to 1 (complete linkage disequilibrium). The null hypothesis of panmixia (rD= 0) was tested using the reshuffling
proce-dure implemented in the software (500 randomizations).
Analyses of population subdivision
We used STRUCTUREversion 2.3.1 (Pritchard et al. 2000) to
examine population subdivision. The model implemented allowed admixture and correlation in allele frequencies (Fa-lush et al. 2003). Burn-in length was set at 50 000 iterations followed by a run phase of 500 000 iterations. Analyses were conducted both using uniform priors and using the region of origin of isolates or type of symptoms as prior information to assist clustering (LocPrior model; Hubisz et al. 2009). We set the number of populations (K) from 1 to 8, but not higher, as preliminary analyses revealed that setting K values above 8 led to clusters with highly admixed ancestry, which is typical of too high a cluster number. For all analyses, we performed 30 independent runs for each value of K. Outputs were processed using CLUMPP version
1.1.2 (Jakobsson and Rosenberg 2007) to identify distinct modes in the replicated runs of each K (‘modes’ refer to distinct clustering solutions). We computed the rate of change in the log probability of data between successive K values (DK statistic; Evanno et al. 2005).
We also used the discriminant analysis of principal com-ponents (DAPC, Jombart et al. 2010) as an alternative method to infer population subdivision. This multivariate method consists of a discriminant analysis on data trans-formed after a principal component analysis. We used the adegenet package (1.3-1) of the R 2.13.1 software (R Foun-dation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria, http:// www.R-project.org) to perform DAPC analyses. The K-means procedure implemented in the function find.cluster allows determining the optimal number of clusters, C. We let C vary between 1 and 50 (with 5000 iterations for each value of C) and used the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) to determine the optimal value of C (corresponding to the value of C for which the BIC is minimal or at which the rate of change in the BIC abruptly changes).
Results
In total, 164 individual genotypes were analyzed, with sample sizes ranging between 18 and 38 in the different
region 9 symptom combinations (Table 1). The data set presented 4.2% of missing data, corresponding to 55 indi-viduals lacking information at one locus at most. On the basis of the diagnostic allele at the Bc6 locus, all individu-als were identified as B. cinerea sensu stricto (Group II). Both in the full data set and in the region9 symptom subsamples, most multilocus genotypes (MLGs) obtained with the eight microsatellites were each detected in a single individual, resulting in a G/N ratio of 0.93 in total and never lower than 0.94 within subsamples (G: number of different MLG, N: sample size). Haplotypic diversity was 0.998 overall and ranged from 0.993 to 1 in subsamples. Nei’s genic diversity He was 0.51 in the full data set and
varied within subsamples between 0.37 (Bordelais) and 0.57 (Alsace). Multilocus linkage disequilibrium was low in all subsamples (rD ranging from 0 to 0.03) and never
significantly different from 0 (except for the Anjou Gray subsample), indicating no detectable departure from panmixia.
STRUCTUREresults are presented in Fig. 1. Only the
mem-bership coefficients for runs with 2≤ K ≤ 4 are shown, because higher values of K revealed no new clusters and only introduced some heterogeneity into membership coef-ficients. Analyses that made no use of prior population information or that used the type of symptoms (« Gray Mold» versus « Noble Rot ») to assist clustering revealed no clear pattern of clustering of genotypes (Figs 1A and B). The modal value of theDK statistic was observed at K = 2 for these models of population structure. However, the bar-plots showed pervasive admixture, providing little evidence for the existence of distinct clusters. In the case of the anal-ysis using the type of symptom as prior information, the 1st cluster encompassed 65% of gray mold isolates and the 2nd cluster encompassed 57% of gray mold isolates. The assignment probability of individuals in the two inferred clusters depending on the type of symptom did not depart from random (v2= 0.59, P = 0.44, df = 1).
In contrast, analyses that used sampling locations as prior population information revealed a clear geographic pattern of clustering (Fig. 1C). Genotypes from Alsace, An-jou, and Bordelais had high membership values in distinct clusters (average standard deviation (%): 94.5 3.8, 73.1 22.3, 93.3 10.5, respectively). The modal value of theDK statistic was observed at K = 3. The interclusters FST ranged from 5% (between Anjou and Bordelais
ters) to 11–12% (between Alsace and the two other clus-ters). Hence, the partition of genetic diversity of B. cinerea populations is better explained by geography than by the type of symptom.
To confirm the population subdivision inferred using STRUCTURE, we performed a DAPC analysis, first without
any a priori information on the origin of individuals or their type of symptoms (Fig. 2). The significant number of
DAPC groups given by the K-means procedure was C= 4 (Fig. 2A). The pairwise FST between these four DAPC
groups ranged from 0.15 to 0.20. Individual assignments provided by DAPC differed from those by STRUCTURE: one
of the STRUCTUREclusters was split into three DAPC groups,
while the fourth DAPC group was composed of 55% of the individuals assigned to the second STRUCTURE cluster
(Fig. 2B). The lack of congruence between the two approaches strengthens the conclusion that there is no strong pattern of population subdivision that would be detectable without using a priori knowledge to assist clus-tering. We then performed DAPC with three groups defined a priori on the basis of the geographic origin of individuals. The posterior assignments confirmed the rele-vance of the use of the geographic prior information: 80% of individuals sampled in Anjou were assigned to a first DAPC group, 84% of individuals sampled in Bordelais were assigned to the second DAPC group, and 72% of indi-viduals sampled in Alsace were assigned to the third DAPC group (Fig. 3A). These DAPC assignments fitted well with the assignments obtained with the STRUCTUREanalyses using
geographic information to assist clustering (Fig. 3B). The assignment methods using the geographic origin of isolates as prior information thus partitioned B. cinerea populations into three clusters strongly associated with the geographic origin of isolates (Table 2, Fig. 4). The first cluster, composed of 53 isolates exclusively coming from
Bordelais, encompassed the highest proportion of repeated genotypes (G/N = 0.81) and was the less diverse (genic diversity He = 0.414, mean number of alleles per locus
na= 3.5). The second cluster counted 46 isolates, all from
the Anjou region, in which all MLGs but one were repre-sented only once (G/N = 0.98). This cluster had a genic diversity He of 0.448 and a mean number of alleles per
locus naof 3.6. The 42 isolates assigned to the third cluster
came predominantly from Alsace (39/42) and were all unique MLGs. This 3rd cluster was the most diverse one (He = 0.581, na= 5.7). All three clusters were characterized
by low values of multilocus linkage disequilibrium (rD
ranging from 0.002 to 0.008). The Alsace cluster was also
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Figure 1 Barplots of the STRUCTUREanalysis without any prior
informa-tion (A), with the symptom as prior informainforma-tion (B) or with the geo-graphic origin as prior information (C).
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Figure 2 Scatter plot of the DAPC analysis without any prior informa-tion (A), and comparison of individual assignment between DAPC and STRUCTUREanalyses without prior information (B). Individuals are consid-ered assigned to a cluster if their posterior probability in that cluster is at least 0.75.
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the most strongly differentiated from the two others (pair-wise FST: Alsace-Bordelais= 0.12, Alsace-Anjou = 0.11,
Bordelais-Anjou= 0.05).
Discussion
Our study shows that noble rot symptoms on grapevine are caused by B. cinerea (sensu stricto) and not by B. pseudo-cinerea or by another cryptic species. The two clusters inferred using the STRUCTUREprogram without making use
of sample group information to assist clustering were explained neither by the type of symptom nor by the geo-graphic origin of isolates. This indicates weak population structure. Such limitations of the STRUCTUREmethod have
recently been pinpointed: as this method considers all par-titions as equally likely, a considerable amount of statistical evidence is needed to provide strong support for any par-ticular partition, which is impossible to obtain when the data contain relatively little information (Hubisz et al. 2009). This justifies the use of group information to assist the clustering algorithm. In the present case, prior knowl-edge on symptom caused by the sampled isolates did not reveal any structure. In contrast, making use of the geo-graphic origin of individuals considerably improved the STRUCTURE clustering and led to a subdivision into three
clusters clearly explained by geography. The confidence in this pattern of geographic subdivision was reinforced by the congruent results obtained using a DAPC analysis mak-ing use of samplmak-ing locations as prior information.
The cluster grouping isolates from Alsace was the most diverse one, showing the highest genetic diversity and the highest number of alleles per locus. The ‘Alsace’ cluster was also the most strongly differentiated from the two other ones. The ‘Alsace’ vineyard is geographically disconnected from the other French wine-producing regions, especially due to the Vosges Mountains, while being connected to West German vineyards. Anjou and Bordelais vineyards are in contrast more or less interconnected. The populations in Anjou and Bordelais experience different climatic condi-tions than those in Alsace. However, these differences in abiotic selective pressures are unlikely to be strong enough to lead to immigrant inviability or to the evolution of extrinsic postzygotic barriers to gene flow, which would be necessary to generate genetic differentiation at neutral loci (Giraud et al. 2010). The observed population subdivision
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Figure 3 Scatter plot of the DAPC analysis with the geographic origin of isolates as prior information (A), and comparison of individual assign-ment between DAPC and STRUCTUREanalyses with geography as prior information (B). Individuals are considered assigned to a cluster if their posterior probability in that cluster is at least 0.75.
Table 2. Sizes of the clusters inferred using STRUCTURE, various indexes of genetic diversities and linkage disequilibrium within each cluster. Admixed
individuals have posterior probabilities not higher than 0.75 in any of the clusters. The main geographic origin in the cluster gives the percentage of isolates assigned to this cluster (with a posterior probability not lower than 0.75) coming from a particular region.N: Number of isolates genotyped. G: number of observed multilocus genotypes. G/N: fraction of nonrepeated genotypes in the sample. He: nonbiased genic diversity.na: mean number
of alleles per locus (standard deviation between brackets).rD: multilocus linkage disequilibrium (P: associated probability estimated after 500
random-izations).
Cluster Main geographic origin in the cluster N G G/N He na rD
Cluster 1 Bordelais (100%) 53 43 0.81 0.414 3.5 (1.9) 0.002 (P = 0.37) Cluster 2 Anjou (100%) 46 45 0.98 0.448 3.6 (1.8) 0.008 (P = 0.24) Cluster 3 Alsace (93%) 42 42 1 0.581 5.7 (2.6) 0.002 (P = 0.41)
may rather be due to the lesser connectivity between Alsace and the two other regions. Also, as already outlined, signifi-cant population differentiation among host plants exists in B. cinerea (Fournier and Giraud 2008), likely due to spe-cialization to the host, but with significant gene flow. We therefore cannot exclude that the different geographic regions host populations of B. cinerea specialized on differ-ent plants, which would mix on differdiffer-ent proportions into the population sampled on grape, therefore leading to sig-nificant differences in allelic frequencies in the analyzed samples due to host specialization instead of geographic isolation.
The overall level of genetic differentiation appears to be quite low, with pairwise FSTranging from 5 to 12%. Such a
pattern of weak genetic structure in B. cinerea has been previously reported (Fournier and Giraud 2008) and indi-cates a history of recent continental spread, large scale con-temporary gene flow and/or large effective population sizes. Our study also confirmed previous results showing
that there was no linkage disequilibrium in B. cinerea pop-ulations (Giraud et al. 1997; Fournier and Giraud 2008; Karchani-Balma et al. 2008). Hence, although sexual repro-duction has never been observed so far in natura, B. cinerea populations experience apparently regular events of recom-bination.
To conclude, gray mold and noble rot symptoms on grapevine are both caused by the same species, B. cinerea (sensu stricto), and there is no genetic differentiation, hence no barrier to gene flow, between isolates causing the different symptoms. This raises the question of the proxi-mal mechanisms inducing the ‘noble’ pathway in B. cine-rea. This fungus is able to attack a wide range of host species, if the conditions are met (Elad and Stewart 2004; Choquer et al. 2007; Williamson et al. 2007). Besides encompassing a large arsenal of genes involved in necro-trophic processes (such as cell wall degradation or oxalic acid production), the genome of B. cinerea is enriched in secondary metabolism gene clusters and also harbors 5% Figure 4 Proportions of individuals assigned to the three clusters inferred with STRUCTUREusing geographic prior information, in each of the three sampled regions. Light gray: cluster K1, dark gray: cluster K2, black: cluster K3, white: admixed individuals. The different French vineyards are indi-cated.
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(879/16400) genes encoding secreted proteins (Amselem et al. 2011). Recently, it has been shown that B. cinerea has a stimulating effect in the production of volatile thiols —compounds naturally produced by the grape berry that contribute strongly to the varietal aromas (Thibon et al. 2009, 2011). More precisely, the 100- to 1000-fold enrich-ment of one particular cysteine S-conjugate precursors in botrytized berries was due to the production of metabo-lites by the fungus that were likely unstable in time and temperature-sensitive (Thibon et al. 2011). Therefore, this metabolic pathway involved in the botrytization process is likely to be modulated by microclimatic conditions. This hypothesis is in accordance with the field observation that the switch between gray mold and noble rot tightly depends on microclimatic conditions; a better description and understanding of the humidity and temperature con-ditions required for noble rot development would then be useful. We cannot rule out the existence of genetic differ-entiation at one (or a few) gene(s), possibly involved in the activation and/or regulation of this kind of metabolic pathways driving aromatic compounds biosynthesis. Fur-ther functional and transcriptomic studies are needed to investigate the existence of such genes and seek for a link between genotypes and phenotypes at these loci. Func-tional and transcriptomic studies could also help reveal which metabolic pathways are involved in the switch between the types of symptoms. Our study therefore strongly prompts for such studies: identifying a particular metabolic pathway and its mode of regulation could open the way for optimizing the production of sweet wines. Being able to foster noble rot symptoms and prevent the switch to gray mold would have important applied conse-quences and now appears the best route for optimizing the production of botrytized berries. Our study revealed the existence of genetic differentiation between regions, which may allow designing PCR-based tests on wines for checking the geographic origins in the context of AOC labels.
Acknowledgements
We thank G. Barbeau, Y. Brygoo, M. Fermaud, D. Fortini, O. Jonot, C. Levis, F. Martinez, S. Merdinoglu, and R. Meziani for their help with population sampling, purifica-tion of isolates, DNA extracpurifica-tion, and microsatellite geno-typing. PG is recipient of Marie Curie grant FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IOF-No. 273086. We acknowledge the grant ANR-07-BDIV-003 (Emerfundis Project).
Data archiving statement
Data deposited in the Dryad repository: doi:10.5061/dryad. 6mv07.
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